Understanding al-Shabab is a mistake

(To Giuseppe Barcellona)
31/10/17

Still dead in Mogadishu in a spiral that does not seem to want to arrest, after the October 14 bombing that lost less than a few 360 people, another bomb exploded outside the hotel Nasa-Hablod killed at least 25 people provoking Thirty injured and the budget unfortunately is going to get worse; this time the kill has been claimed by al Shabab who has not yet signed his first and most violent attack two weeks ago, particularly gruesome, the local police claim to have found the body of a woman and three children killed with a shotgun at the back of his neck.

Absent on the scene the international press that relegated the news to short pressed releases without the canonical post-attacked insights we are accustomed to after any analogous event occurring in the West, a major under-estimation error or perhaps the precise strategy of not giving the media a young but very determined terrorist group.

Meanwhile, the head of Somali intelligence Abdillahi Mohamed Sanbalooshe does not use half-words in the pages of the New York Times"The vital information and evidence of crimes committed in Somalia continues to be analyzed abroad, denying us the opportunity to protect our citizens and prosecute perpetrators".

An act of accusation of connivance of Western authorities with local terrorists? The truck used in the attack was Italian, a detail to be considered.

The request of the Somali authorities will be evaluated in the next few days by US and British governments who will decide on what to do, but a somewhat hypocritical hypothesis from somber intelligence to the issuer Voice of America Africa according to which the main objective of the attack was the Turkish military base in the area destroyed by the bombs; the recently inaugurated Turkish military base 200 serves to train the Somali army in view of the gradual withdrawal of the African Union in Somalia (Amisom) that should take place at the end of 2018.

The failure of al-Shabab to claim the attack raises numerous questions; who was it to engineer and materially carry out the terrorist action? It is a question that currently hovers unresolved in the leaden sky of Mogadishu.

If we had been the Somali fundamentalists we could guess the will to make a leap forward in the general consideration, both in the context of international terrorism perceived by the West, and within the Islamic world where al-Shabab could collect the legacy and the fragments of IS, if the jihadist militias currently engaged in Syria were defeated, but the attack of the 28 October and immediately claimed seems to deny the paternity of the first and most brutal slaughter without paternity, then we can hypothesize a feud within local factions of -Shabab, a credible hypothesis if we analyze the young and yet complex history of the group.

Al-Shabab, Somali, "the boys" is an 2006 operating group and born of the ashes of the "Islamic Courts Union" defeated following the Somali Civil War; his story lives alternately as the territory where he operates, where various factions are fighting power and territories.

At 6 years since the birth the Qaedian turn with the annexation to the most important and expert group under the auspices of Ayman al-Zawahiri; in 2012 at Shabab officially becomes an Al Qaeda cell operating in East Africa but this annexation causes an internal foul culminating with hundreds of deaths and a weakening of the organization as a consequence of the operation Linda Nchi coordinated by Somali and Kenyan armies.

What remains of al-Shabab is considered to be a Qaedian cell up to our day, it is not to be ruled out that not all Somali militaries accept al-Zawahiri's leadership and that terrorist groups in Somalia are not part of the qaedista a theoretical reading key for the two near-distance attacks, simply an internal war of al-Shabab power in which the rebel group seeks media coverage to later claim al-Qaeda's emancipation and leadership in the area.

After the internal disagreements of the 2012 it seemed that the "boys" of Mogadishu would dissolve like snow in the sun and instead, under the expert guidance of the Egyptian Zawahiri, the irreducible Somalis hatched a series of attacks culminating in the black October of Mogadishu.

On the international front by learning al-Qaeda's propaganda techniques, al-Shabab has radicalized foreign cells used subsequently not only from a military point of view but as propaganda vectors; here is the leap that is trying to organize in a context not just local.

It would be an expanding group, many Western countries recognize Shabab as a terrorist organization, surprisingly among them are Italy, Germany and France; this is a serious mistake.

First of all, from an internal security point of view, do not consider Somali asylum seekers as a possible terrorist threat is wrong, there is a risk of underestimating the problem of infiltration as there is certainty of Somali terrorist cells in Italy under cover and dedicated to supply of various materials to men tied to Shabab.

-Florence Police Investigators * (Source Republic 4 October 2017 edition Florence) discovered a network of illegal exports to Somalia of dismantled trucks of the Italian Army, four Somali nationals and one Italian were arrested on charges of exporting armaments; are involved in a total of 16 people including two Somali citizens who provide for payment of trucks sent to Somalia, either in whole or in part, through the underground transfer fund called Hawala. The investigation coordinated by the pm of Florence Giuseppina Mione and departed from the reports of the Customs Agency, made it possible to identify a network of Somali citizens who bought dismantled but not demilitarized military trucks, ie not private of typical features for use in scenario scenarios war.

Italian auto-masks, conveyors and shippers helped them by either potting the media or cutting them off and delivering shipping documents. This is all about circumventing both the Italian legislation that separates military vehicles into armaments, banning its sale and export, and especially the international embargo on Somalia, which totally prohibits the transfer of military vehicles (but not of military vehicles). dismantled military vehicles) in the terrorist-torn African country.

Already in 2006, the UN had accused Italy of having violated the embargo and sent 18 trucks to Somalia, trucks had been purchased in Bari by a Dubai businessman who then shipped them to Mogadishu 7 October 2015 the Interregional Director of the Customs Agency of Campania and Calabria, Alberto Libeccio, told the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the Waste cycle that the Agency had carried out seizures of military vehicles dismantled to the Italian Army and conducted investigations into a chain which led "to people and organizations close to Al Shabaab" - , that is, to the Islamic terrorists held responsible for numerous attacks in Somalia, including the Saturday 14 massacre perpetrated with a truck arrived from Italy.

It is desirable for the government to immediately insert al-Shabab into the list of terrorist organizations, which would allow greater attention to the Somali problem and the illicit trafficking which, according to the Florence inquiry, still exist between the two countries; it should be considered that, when speaking of Somalia, Italy is deaf, in perfect harmony with the rest of the West who in the Horn of Africa has implemented wicked policies and has spread toxic waste of all kinds, many of which are radioactive, causing thousands of deaths among civilians poisoned by exhalations.

Think of the Project Uranus which seems to foresee large amounts of harmful waste coming from Italy in three desert resorts of Sahara. Ilaria Alpi and Mirko Hrovatin paid the price surveys they were making on this traffic and despite the fact that the 1992 has been ratified by the European Union and other 168 States the "Basel convention on the control of the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes"Which prohibits the sending of hazardous wastes to a war zone, toxic waste from industries has fallen under the blindness of Americans, Europeans, Russians and Chinese who have patrolled the Somali seas from the danger of the corsairs, bearing in mind that the most pirates dangerous in Somalia are those in the jacket and tie of the big industries that lie in fake societies.

Italy, the United States and France, probably other nations, with the involvement of political figures and organized crime as revealed by former secret agent Aldo Anghessa in the nineties, find that these trades still exist very puzzled. (Espresso Source)

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Does the toxic waste business still illegally dispose of on the Somali soil still exist? This should not surprise us as it would be an activity that could finance al-Shabab's pirate tribes and guerrillas.

According to the investigation of the then expressed one of these criminal groups was made up of some Italians including Giancarlo Marocchino, convoy and trusted man of the Italian army in Mogadiscio, Guido Garelli, Ezio Scaglione, former honorary consul of Somalia, and from then-Somali President Ali Mahdi Mohamed, as well as as various industrialists in Northern Italy and this is related to today's investigations concerning the disposal of toxic waste and managed by organized crime, the point is that local guerrillas in exchange for permits related Waste disposal accepts as counterpart the supply of weapons and explosives, it would be interesting to know what type of armament year and the origin of the explosives but as mentioned earlier the results of the investigations lay abroad without the local detectives can access it.

Truth or false truth, gossip that is lost between the desert dunes and the Somali coast, between uranium candles and radioactive wastes, and in the background the Somali dream of a nation united with Europe and the United States turning from ' on the other hand. No one looks at Somalia, a cabinet full of skeletons of the West.

This article was made by taking the following sources: articles that appeared on the New York Times; Voice of America Africa; Florence Republic; Danilo Arona carmillaonline.com 3 November 2009; Paul Moreira, Toxic Somalia, Youtube audio clip; Greenpeace (FR) The toxic Ships; Barbara Carazzolo, Alberto Chiara, Luciano Scalettieri "Dirty faces of clean faces" 1 October 2000; Somalia: the western waste dump, Francesco Dessi.

(images: Al Jazeera / web)